The Masterkeyboard is a Studiologic SL880,
The Mic Arm is a Rode PSA-1

This is my laptop it kicks ass. I recommend it to everyone. I have not had to upgrade anything in it and it runs Sonar really well. 
http://www.bestbuy.com/site/Samsung+-+15.6%26%2334%3B+Series+7+Laptop+-+8GB+Memory+-+1TB+Hard+Drive+-+Silver/5575679.p?id=1218665501364&skuId=5575679&st=samsung%207%20series&cp=1&lp=2

I use this Asus  http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2394833,00.asp It is a i7 with quade 2.7Ghz, 8 gigs of RAM a 750 Gig hard drive and windows7 64 bit. I'm using Sonar X1 Producer 64bit install. I have a Allen & Health Zed 14 USB interface and I can run the Cori Yarckin "Floating" Demo with ease. If you have a good interface and even and external drive you'll be fine with something similar.  

Thats 36 tracks, 16 busses, and around 24 plugin/effects.

Hope that helps!

Dell Studio 15 here.  i5, 8 gigs of ram. works great!!!

Rocky

Mine's a CLEVO based laptop and cost me getting on for £2000 with extra RAM and SSDs, stuff like that. You can't argue that desktop workstations will always wipe the floor with laptops but I'm really glad that I went down the laptop route now. I love being able to set up my studio anywhere I want to...

130+ tracks is going to test the ability of any computer.  That is a whole lot of stuff to keep running in real time..... add synth to the mix and the job is immense. 

I don't know if these would do the trick but I would suggest a phone call to Jim and talk about his laptops .... he is a regular contributor  here..

http://www.studiocat.com/3/index.php/Laptop

metz


Hey!

I sadly have to move to a way smaller appartement in two months. I have two kids so things will be pretty tight. So I'm concidering getting myself a laptop instead of my beloved stationary computer.

I need a computer that can replace my stationary computer. I'm fully aware of that I wont be able to get the same performance as before since I have a Intel hexacore i970, 24Gb and a bunch of SSD's. But I do have to have a powerful laptop 

/M

Hi ! 


I too have a very similar workstation as yours (I7-970, 24gbRAM, etc..) very powerful computer, but honestly ... way too powerful !! I could live with half of that... 


 I find myself never finding the limits of my Dell Vostro 3750 17 inch laptop, it has a quadcore i7, 8gb, but can take up to 16. You can even fit a secondary HDD/SSD in place of the DVD drive, and it has a eSata port and USB3, AND expresscard for firewire, UAD2 or whatnot. I took quite some time to shop, and was a bit sckeptical about the Dell, but honestly, it surpasses all my needs, and I beat the he!! out of it.. I took back a HP elitebook to the store with similar specs, 
very noisy, full of crapware, felt flimsy... 


As some have said, it's better to have an external soundcard, but honestly, I can get quite a lot done with the onboard one whenever I feel to lazy to plug one .. make sure you have ASIO4ALL.. 


I hope that helps ! 


Cheers! 


V

Like others have mentioned there are many great laptops available. I'm using an Asus U46E with an i5 processor and 8GB ram. I've just installed a Seagate Momentus XT 750GB hybrid SSD drive in it. It now fully boots up in about 25 sec.

How do you guys feel about SSD or the hybrid drive dleuen mentioned for laptops? Really considering an upgrade myself. 

I'm really liking the hybrid drive I installed in my laptop. Haven't run X1 much yet to see if it will eventually cache those files so first time I started X1 I didn't notice that much difference (on a large project). Boot time and common apps like a browser are significantly faster. I also got an enclosure and am using the old drive for a usb backup.

Edit: I just timed a few times of opening the Corey Yarkin project. From clicking the X1 icon to project ready to go is about 43-45 sec. That includes unbundling. Opening an already unbundled copy takes about 12 sec.